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Boot Repair forced Ubuntu to load Unity2D and the mouse cursor freezed

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http://askubuntu.com – I am a GRUB noob and I would appreciate if you could help me with my issues. I want to install several GNU/Linux Distros but I broke GRUB so I used boot-repair to fix it. I wanted to have a separated /boot partition on /dev/sda1 containing the following options: /dev/sda5 -> my old Ubuntu 12.04 x64 / /dev/sda6 -> /home for Ubuntu in sda5 /dev/sda10 -> LinuxMint I first ran the boot-repair with "Recomended repair" and it left my system unusable so I ran it again by expanding the "Advanced options" section. These are the options that I used: from the "Main options" tab I chec (HowTos)

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Please help me. I'm curious about but VERY new to Ubuntu and Linux in general.

Short: My system has 2 OS: Win 7 x64 and Ubuntu 12.10. I'm getting 2 Windows boot options: "on dev/sda1" and "on dev/sda2". What does this mean?

Earlier today i installed ubuntu 12.10 beta. Grub wasn't booting, but just going directly to my primary OS Windows 7. I assumed i had partitioned incorrectly, because partitioning isnt my strong suit. I used boot repair because it was well recomanded off a live usb. Afterwards, grub appeared, but i only had options for Ubuntu, Advanced Ubuntu Option, and my hidden windows 7 recovery partition.

I posted this question explaining what happened after I tried to create a new swap partition on a Win/Ubuntu dual-boot machine. I have since created a live-boot USB and installed Boot-Repair. I had it "recommend repairs", after which it tried repairing the wubi filesystems, which as far as I'm aware was not necessary.

[ubuntu] Ubuntu boot error 28 weeks 1 day ago

I installed 12.04 LTS from a USB and had no issues with the install for a week or so with numerous restarts. I installed Amahi, Greyhole, SABNZBd and crashplan. During the copying over of my files from my WHS to my new Ubuntu Greyhole File Server, I maxed out the boot drive. I used a live CD to delete some of the copied files and create enough free space to boot the OS.

I am fairly new to Linux/Ubuntu and am in need of some help. I have dual booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 on 2 separate hard drives. After several attempts, I was only able to get it working by changing the BIOS hd boot option. I then found some threads on repairing the boot process by using Boot-Repair.

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7 on my laptop. After I did this I couldn't boot into Windows 7. I got an error regarding an 'invalid EFI path'. After a bit of searching the forums, I found out about Boot Repair. I ran this in my Ubuntu partition and it has fixed the problem.

Dual boot system, Win XP and Ubuntu 11 with Grub, working fine. Update from 11.10 to 12.04 runs smooth, at end I reboot. At boot, Grub menu won't appear, I get: error: out of partition grub rescue>

Tried the boot-repair disk.

Following a fresh install of 12.04 on a dual HDD dual boot system first boot brought up Grub Rescue.

I installed Boot Repair in a live CD and ran the recommended repair. Boot Repair indicated a successful repair.

Upon reboot there is no entry for Win XP.

Gparted shows sda as full as it was before installing 12.04.

Ok, so I'm having this problem. I have also seen something called Boot Repair

Any help?